Mark Eisner

Mark Eisner spent nearly two decades working on projects related to Pablo Neruda. In 2018, Ecco published his "Neruda: The Biography of a Poet," a finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography. Earlier, he conceived, edited, and was one of the principal translators for City Lights’ "The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems" (2004). Mark has also produced a documentary on Neruda, narrated by Isabel Allende.

Moving on from Neruda, he co-edited "Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution," an anthology published by Tin House in 2020. Mark is currently finishing a narrative biography, "Art as a Weapon: Tina Modotti and the Mexican Cultural Renaissance." It will be published by Yale University Press in 2027.

He has long been involved with the Red Poppy Art House, an impactful intercultural hub of artistic life and activity in San Francisco.

Mark received a B.A. in English/Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. Later, he earned a M.A. in Latin American Studies from Stanford University, where he subsequently served as a Visiting Scholar.